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Former Auburn defensive back joins USFL’s Generals Published: Jan. 30, 2023, 1:00 p.m. ~2 minutes Los Angeles Rams safety Blake Countess runs with the football after intercepting a pass during an NFL game against the San Francisco 49ers on Dec. 30, 2018, at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum in Los Angeles.AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez By Mark Inabinett | minabinett@al.com While the NFL has one game remaining in its 2022 season – Super Bowl LVII on Feb. 12 – the XFL, USFL and CFL are preparing for their 2023 campaigns. The XFL kicks off its season on Feb. 18, the USFL starts on April 15 and the CFL begins its preseason slate on May 22. The roster building for the leagues’ teams has continued over the past week, and three players with Alabama football roots are among the most recent signings: · Linebacker Beniquez Brown (Florence) signed with the USFL’s Houston Gamblers. Brown played for the AAF’s Birmingham Iron in 2019, and he appeared in six games with the Gamblers last season. · Defensive back Blake Countess (Auburn) signed with the USFL’s New Jersey Generals. Countess joins the Generals after playing in 45 regular-season and seven playoff games across six seasons in the NFL. · Defensive end Wallace Cowins Jr. (North Alabama) signed with the CFL’s Ottawa Redblacks. Cowins’ final season at UNA was the 2021 campaign. Mark Inabinett is a sports reporter for Alabama Media Group. Follow him on Twitter at @AMarkG1. If you purchase a product or register for an account through one of the links on our site, we may receive compensation.

Ex-Auburn football assistant blocks a bunch of Auburn media members on Twitter... for some reason? Auburn Daily Staff ~2 minutes Bryan Harsin may have not passed much onto his assistants during his time at Auburn, but at least he showed one of them how to use the block feature on Twitter. Former Auburn wide receivers coach Ike Hilliard has gone on a blocking spree on Twitter, removing a number of Auburn beat writers, media members, and fan pages alike from his account's view - and the strangest thing about it is the fact that almost no one in the Auburn media sphere has ever said anything negative about Hilliard. In fact, some of those blocked pointed out that they haven't ever done anything other than support him. Hilliard was hired by former Auburn head coach Bryan Harsin to coach the receiver room this past offseason after the previous coaching stint with the core featured Cornelius Williams being fired four games into the season and offensive analyst Eric Kiesau moving up to take over the role. Bryan Harsin went on a similar run following his firing, blocking several beat writers and "soft blocking" others, meaning he removed them as a follower but didn't block them (which is significantly more petty).

How Auburn is retooling its defense through the transfer portal Published: Jan. 23, 2023, 3:58 p.m. 4–5 minutes Auburn football coach Hugh Freeze is introduced during Auburn basketball vs Arkansas on Saturday, Jan. 7,.2023 in Auburn, Ala. Todd Van Emst/AU Athletics Todd Van Emst/AU Athletics/AU At By Nubyjas Wilborn | nwilborn@al.com Auburn head coach Hugh Freeze and defensive coordinator Ron Roberts knew replacing All-SEC EDGE Derick Hall, team captain linebacker Owen Pappoe, EDGE Eku Leota, defensive line Colby Wooden, and several others would be a tough challenge for the program. Freeze and Roberts also were aware that solely signing high school players wouldn’t be nearly enough. The Tigers needed to improve on a run defense that was 97th in yards allowed (172.6 yards per game) and 105th at 4.64 yards per carry. Former head coach Bryan Harsin often talked about establishing the run on offense and being a physical defense that can stop the run. Auburn’s results didn’t reflect Harsin’s emphasis in the run game. Read More Auburn Football: Auburn sets date for 2023 A-Day spring game Hugh Freeze makes it a dozen transfers added, signs SEC linebacker Breaking down Auburn’s additions, losses and remaining needs after 1st transfer window closes If Freeze wants a longer tenure than Harsin’s 19 games, it’ll start with stopping the run. Here’s a look at the players Freeze and Roberts are hoping can help the Tigers in the 2023 season. Austin Keys LB 6′2 245 Ole Miss Keys had 35 tackles, 3.5 tackles for loss, and two sacks last season at Ole Miss. He started in five games and played 13 for the Rebels. He racked up 51 tackles from 2020-22 and played in 23 games. The Tigers needed an experienced linebacker with Pappoe leaving for the National Football League draft. Keys has an opportunity to play an impact role. Quientrail Jamison-Travis DL 6′4 280 Iowa Western Jamison-Travis is Iowa’s top-rated junior college prospect and America’s No. 3 juco defensive lineman prospect. He was part of a national championship-winning program at Iowa Western. He tallied 45 tackles, 13.5 tackles for loss, 8.5 sacks last season, and in 2021 posted 45 tackles, 6.5 TFL, and 2.0 sacks. Freeze told reporters that winning in the trenches is a primary focus. Keeping Jamison-Travis, who was initially recruited by Harsin’s staff, was a priority. Justin Rodgers DL 6′3 332 Kentucky Rodgers had 35 tackles last season at Kentucky. He has played in 33 games with 60 tackles, three sacks, and five tackles for loss for the Wildcats. Several recruiting sites considered Rodgers as one of the best available defensive linemen in the portal. Mosiah Nasili-Kite DL 6′2 320 Maryland Nasili-Kite comes to Auburn as a grad transfer. He played three seasons at Maryland after transferring from Independence Community College. He totaled 83 tackles, nine sacks, and 13.5 while playing for the Terrapins. Elijah McAllister EDGE 6′6 265 Vanderbilt McAllister had 65 tackles, two fumble recoveries, and forced three fumbles during 36 games over five seasons for the Commodores. He’s a former team captain who has 12 starts. He’ll add to a position group seeking depth with the losses of Hall and Leota. Lawrence Johnson DT 6′3 310 Purdue Johnson had 29 tackles, 2.5 for a loss, 1.5 sacks, and a forced fumble last season while starting in all 13 games for the Boilermakers. The grad transfer is a three-year starter with 88 tackles, 7.5 TFL, and 2.5 sacks in 46 games at Purdue. DeMario Tolan 6′2 222 LSU Tolan had 10 tackles as a freshman in 12 games last season for LSU. He was a four-star recruit in the 2022 class, and several recruiting sites had him a four-star portal athlete. Getting a youngster like Tolan is good for Freeze and Roberts for next season and beyond. If you purchase a product or register for an account through one of the links on our site, we may receive compensation.

auburnwire.usatoday.com Auburn's transfer haul among SEC's best Taylor Jones ~2 minutes Auburn Football has seen an astonishing boost in recruiting since Hugh Freeze has taken over the program. Auburn currently has the No. 17 high school recruiting class for the 2023 cycle according to 247Sports and reeled in a top-five transfer portal class during the first window. Now that recruiting has begun to wind down for the 2023 cycle, media outlets are starting to share their thoughts on how well each college football program did in their transfer portal recruiting efforts, including Auburn. Buy Tigers Tickets Athlon Sports recently dropped their SEC Football transfer portal rankings, where they have placed Auburn at the No. 3 spot, behind fellow SEC West foes LSU and Ole Miss. Steven Lassan of Athlon Sports was pleased with Freeze’s ability to fill team needs in a short period of time. This haul of transfers boosts Auburn’s chances of making marked improvement under new coach Hugh Freeze. Landing three Day 1 starters on the offensive line was crucial with the entire group in transition. (Brian) Battie and (Rivaldo) Fairweather add to a thin group of playmakers, with Battie capable of sharing carries with Jarquez Hunter. Depth is crucial to any defense in the SEC, and even if (Justin) Rogers, (Lawrence) Johnson, (Austin) Keys and (Demario) Tolan don’t start, Auburn just needed more talent on this side of the ball. These additions accomplish that, plus add starter-capable players in the front. Auburn ranks No. 3 overall in 247Sports’ team transfer portal rankings, behind LSU and Florida State. The first window closed on Jan. 15 and will open again on May 1 for a 15-day period, meaning that Auburn could bring in more talented additions before the 2023 season begins.

247sports.com Jason Caldwell's Monday morning quarterback column Jason Caldwell 4–5 minutes Junior Day a huge success We probably won’t know the true impact of Saturday’s Junior Day until months or even years down the road, but there is no question that what Hugh Freeze and his staff pulled off will be felt for a long time in the Auburn program. More than 150 kids showed up for the visit to check out the program and the Auburn facilities, which shows you the interest in the program. It’s amazing the difference in just a year’s time in that regard. There is some downside to having a group that big with some kids probably not able to get as much one-on-one attention as would be ideal, but the positives far outweigh the negatives in that regard. It’s also a case of being the first one. If you’re Freeze and his staff, you don’t turn down anyone who wants to visit the program right now. It’s all about building goodwill and relationships with players and their parents. Saturday went a long way towards doing just that. It’s also a chance to make up some ground on 2024 prospects who had pretty much written Auburn off and started looking in other directions. One of those is big-time wide receiver Mario Craver from Clay-Chalkville. One of the most dynamic wide receiver prospects in the country, Craver has offers from all over the country. After showing a lot of interest in Auburn early on, Craver had cooled considerably on the Tigers. I asked him his thoughts on Auburn after the visit and here was his response. “I can definitely tell Freeze got something special going on!” That’s a long way from getting a commitment, but it’s a big step in the right direction for Auburn with one of the top players in Alabama. Stretch run up for Auburn hoops With Wednesday night’s game against the Georgia Bulldogs marking the halfway point of the SEC schedule for the basketball Tigers, crunch time is here for Bruce Pearl’s club after dropping a second-straight contest on Saturday at West Virginia. Currently 16-5 overall and 6-2 in SEC play, Auburn’s schedule only gets tougher. After the Georgia game, the Tigers go on the road for back-to-back games against Texas A&M and Tennessee before coming home to play Alabama on Saturday, February 11. Those are huge opportunity games for this team that needs a couple of big wins down the stretch to bolster its resume for the NCAA Tournament. Even though Saturday’s game ended in a loss after trailing by as many as 17 points, I thought Auburn found something in the second half against the Mountaineers. That is going inside over and over and over again and running the offense through Johni Broome and Jaylin Williams. Playing that way helped with shot selection and led to Auburn making 5-8 from behind the arc after making just 2-9 in the first half. For this team it’s all about consistency and getting off to a good start. Two straight games Auburn has dug too big of a hole to climb out of in the final 20 minutes. If this team wants to make a run it needs to start now and it’s going to start with the ball in the hands of its two most consistent scoring threats more often. Auburn women getting healthy at the right time For much of the 2022-23 season Coach Johnnie Harris’ team has been far less than full strength, making it tough to put up much of a fight in many of the games the Tigers have played in the Southeastern Conference. Finally getting most of the key players back three games ago, Auburn has put together back-to-back wins as the Tigers look to make it three in a row on Monday evening with a home game vs. Florida. 18COMMENTS If you haven’t had the opportunity to do so, go check out Auburn junior Aicha Coulibaly. She’s quietly putting together a monster season for the Tigers, averaging 17.7 points and 5.9 rebounds per game to go along with 37 steals. Double figures in eight-straight games, Coulibaly is averaging 19.2 points in SEC play with games of 31 points and 20 points in Auburn’s two wins. She has done it while overcoming a knee injury and then a concussion. Do yourself a favor and go watch her and this team continue to battle. ">247Sports

were you in the military homie?

i dealt with several hundred classified docs when i was at the pentagon. i had to sort them for pick up to the right folks. i cannot swear on it david but i believe the crisis center i worked at everyone had to have a top secret clearance. those that did not had to have an escort at all times. and if i had to go the intelligence section i had to have an escort and i had a top secret clearance. and those guys got the really good stuff like the presidents and joint chiefs of staff got. so they did not play. again if i had done what any of those cats did i would be in prison. but they are not going to do a damn thing to ANY president nor vice president so all of this is just political crap. but it is not fair.

i said that in an earlier thread bro. my point being if I had done it i would have gone to prison and lost voting and guns rights much less probably not ever getting a decent paying job.

what else can they do with a fake affidavit and someone refuses to send all the docs as requested? this is what happens when idiots like trump are elected. trump lied dude. this is the difference.

i do not care who does it salty. to me it should not be a partison issue and i feel like some folks needed some prison time to go along with those fines. i remember back in the late nineties there was some kind of spill and there were dead fish everywhere. there were catfish the size of dee rfloating on top of the water and alive but dying. a coworker actually swam out and straddled one and paddled himself back to shore. he strapped the catfish on the front hood of his car and got a ticket for obstructing his view. but when they started putting out no swimming advisories it got my attention.

yes they did. they did not have the right to leave them lying around. but if you are trying to compare them with trump it i a bad look. they give him months to give the docs back. he refused. so they told him they were coming and he bent it all out of shape with his normal lying crap. he was crying about how unfair they did him compare4d to joe. joe did the right thing and trump did the trump bullcrap. if an enlisted man had lost docs because of carelessness when i was in the service they went to prison. and i was stationed at the pentagon so we were read the riot act on that stuff. so lets summarize. biden and i assume all others compled. trump did not. like the turd he is.

let me say F U to you. those "twits" were trying to save lives. it is just that simple. lets hope you are a child or family memeber need help and people do not take the F you when YOU might need it. good grief. you have no shame dude.

i had two people mouth off on me in the same day. one called me white trash and stupid so i took a break. i left the guilty party a very bad private message so i might or might not get in trouble for that and get a time out but at least i make it private. all because i posted a video bashing auburn to get folks to call them out as liars like i did. it caught me off guard and crushed my soul. so i took a break.

i agree that any child should go through a battery of tests. but i also think most caring parents know more about their children than strangers. i do not see the evil. you guys have been raising hell about this with the bathroom dustups and all the ensuing stuff. i know a family that had a daughter that is now a son and it basically saved her life as she was suffering from depression and suicidal thoughts because she did not understand. but i will also admit i think she was sixteen or seventeen before they started everything to give her her wish. but it worked and she is a very happy and productive member of society. my question is what makes you think these kids or whatever are not already going through tests before they do something to ruin someones life? if they are doing it wrong they need to be held accountable. but is they are doing it right it is none of your business.

pot meet kettle.anyway how have you been scooter? i say that with love by the way.

dude join the real world. i have seen blacks with stellar education get turned down over and over because of their skin color. now you can denie this all you want but the feds had to step in with their own hiring as well as other corps,etc. this is a fact you cannot denie. it was so bad the feds did a thing where they basically forced federal agencies like a depot to hire minorities over more qualified opponents. this is not a shot at blacks. this is a shot at the agencies that did the good ol boy hirings instead of hiring the best qualified. this also includes women as well. and white folks were pissed but they had no one to blame but themselves because their hiring practices were shady at best. i saw this stuff with my own eyes. and they used to good ol"over qualified" for blacks and women of all races. now maybe it has gotten better since i retired and i hope it has. what fool in their right mind would not hire someone that might be over qualified? hell you hire the best and brightest. so it is not as simple as want to make it out to be.

let us remember the thug known as trump take a private yet ALL THE TIME. see how that works? and i bet trump jets around more than biden by a huge margin.

aj brown showed out yesterday for the few minutes i had the game on.

Trio of former Auburn teammates heading to Super Bowl LVII Taylor Jones 2–3 minutes Auburn Football was well represented during the 2022-23 NFL season with 26 former players gracing professional rosters. As the season draws closer to an end, three former Tigers remain as the field is set for Super Bowl LVII at State Farm Stadium in Glendale, Arizona. Buy Tigers Tickets The Philadelphia Eagles defeated the San Francisco 49ers in the NFC Championship Game on Sunday, 31-7 to advance to the Super Bowl, which means that former Tigers jack driscoll and Arryn Siposs will get the chance to compete for the league’s ultimate prize. On the other side, the Kansas City Chiefs defeated Cincinnati Bengals on a late field goal, 23-20 to win the AFC Championship, meaning that former Auburn lineman Prince Tega Wanogho is also heading to the Super Bowl. It will be a reunion between those three Tigers, as all three players were a part of Auburn rosters during the 2018 and 2019 seasons before beginning their professional careers in 2020. Driscoll, who transferred to Auburn from UMass, was taken No. 145 overall by the Eagles while Siposs signed an undrafted rookie contract with the Detroit Lions. Wanogho was the longest-tenured Tiger out of the bunch, playing from 2015-19. In 2020, he was ironically taken No. 210 overall by the Eagles, the team that he will be facing in the Super Bowl. Driscoll saw action at both left and right tackle for the Eagles this season. In ten games, Driscoll has participated in 357 snaps according to Pro Football Focus with 207 being at right tackle. Siposs has punted the football 44 times for Philadelphia this season for an average of 45.7 yards. His longest punt of the season totaled 57 yards, and he has placed an impressive 19 punts inside the opponent’s 20-yard line. Wanogho has played in six games this season for Kansas City, playing 45 snaps at right tackle, and 15 at left tackle. The Eagles will compete for their second Super Bowl crown in franchise history on Sunday, Feb. 12, while the Chiefs look to earn their third.

AuburnSports - BMatt’s Monday musings Bryan Matthews AuburnSports BMatt’s Monday musings 38m ago 5–7 minutes AUBURN | Auburn hosted close to 200 recruits for its Junior Day. There was plenty of quality too with a number of Rivals100 and Rivals250 players along with several current SEC and Power 5 commitments. It comes on the heels of Hugh Freeze and his staff spending 16 consecutive days on the road recruiting. That relentless effort paid off big-time with Saturday’s turnout. Auburn’s football program desperately needed this level of commitment to recruiting from its head coach and finally found its talisman in Freeze. It’s so refreshing to witness and quite a contrast to last year’s first Junior Day, which was held Jan. 29 and included just 13 visitors. The staff had tried to throw together a last-minute Junior Day a week earlier for a home basketball game against Kentucky but couldn’t get anyone to show up. The lack of planning, execution and effort is really beyond pathetic when you look back at it now. It was embarrassingly poor leadership from Bryan Harsin. His recruiting efforts in just over 22 months in charge of Auburn were nothing short of a dereliction of duty. He didn’t deserve a penny of his $15.3 million buyout, but that’s not a fight AU was going to win regardless. That Auburn’s recruiting immediately improved the moment Harsin exited the building is all you need to know about his tenure. The Tigers hosted 27 high school prospects during the crucial official visit period last May and June. Only one of those players, running back Jeremiah Cobb, committed and will sign with Auburn. One of 27. Shortly after Harsin was fired and before Freeze was brought in, Cadillac Williams and AU’s remaining staff managed to flip defensive lineman Darron Reed from LSU. Two of 27. Freeze arrived Nov. 28 and was key in AU flipping center Connor Lew from Miami and edge Keldric Faulk from Florida State. Four of 27. Now, that’s still not a good return on your official visitors but it’s four times better than what Harsin was going to accomplish. And who knows if Cobb would have stuck with his commitment if that clown-show had been allowed an additional year. But that’s the past. It’s over. There’s a new dawn in Auburn with Freeze at the helm. He’s restocked AU’s roster with 21 new players this month and he’s set his staff on the path to even bigger returns in the 2024 class. Auburn is a force in recruiting for the first time in more than a decade and it’s a sight to behold. *** So what comes next? A bit of a break in recruiting. The dead period begins today and lasts through the end of February. You can still call, text and DM recruits, but face-to-face contact is prohibited for the next 30 days. Prospect visits and Junior Days will return March 1 and coaches will be eligible to get back on the road starting April 15, which is a week after A-Day. The dead period couldn’t come at a better time for most of this staff who launched into recruiting immediately after the end of the season and haven’t slowed down since. It’s non-stop now with the transfer portal and December signing period. Now they’ll have a month to better assess their needs, top targets and adjust their recruiting boards as needed. February will also be a great month for team building. All that time devoted to recruiting over the last couple of months can be poured into winter workouts and the more than 70 players scheduled to go through spring practice. There might even be some well-earned time off for the staff. Perhaps Freeze can even get a round or two in on the links.